Nusach of Brochous

Shalom!

What's the nusach ashkenaz in the brocho me'ein sholoush: mizbechEcho or mizbAchacho?

What about perfumed plants: bourei isvei besomim or borei isvous besomim? And if it is in plural, what's the reason?

Thanks!

A freilechen chanuko!

Meir

The Nusach of the brochoh as appears in our text of the Gemara is עשבי. The correct word in לשון מקרא, however, is עשבות. When proposals to use לשון מקרא in other similar situations were floated (such as to say המעריב ערבות in place of המעריב ערבים or לשבת בסכה instead of לישב בסכה were suggested, the Baer siddur rejected them as an inappropriate שנוי in the לשון הברכה. But he accepted the change here do to a מחלקת as to whether the ב in עשבי is a בּ or a בֿ. R. Baer apparently felt that since brachos can be recited בכל לשון in any event, if we can't be sure that we are being מדקדקים in the form of the Hebrew word we are saying then we could or should use another word with the same meaning which we know the דקדוק of, if that word is also in לשון קדש. Since the exact meaning and translation of the brachah is preserved, it can be said not to be considered משנה ממטבע שטבעו חכמים, and doesn't have the חסרון of שאר לשונות, in this case where we are substituting another word form of לשון הקדש. Nonetheless, he didn't support doing this לכתחלה in other cases where the דקדוק of the word is not in question, at least where we don't know of a Rishon or another Nusach already using the suggested alternative form. (In addition R. Baer points out that changing "ערבים" to "ערבות" can lead to ח״ו ,חרוף וגדוף.)

Melech

Where are these Nuscha'os in the Rokeach?

BTW, Rav Hamburger says "Mizbachacho", not "Mizb'checho".

MPerlman